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R Markdown Presentation Formats

Table of Contents

  • Presentation formats in RMD
    • Interactive presentation
    • Non-interactive presentation
  • Tools for preparing presentation slides
    • HTML tags
    • Markdown syntax
    • optional CSS
  • Presentation themes
    • Built-in themes for beamer slides
    • user defined themes with CSS
  • Special syntax for creating slides
  • Visual object inclusion
    • Static and interactive graphs
    • external images and animated graphs
    • embedding webpages
    • including interactive apps from other platforms
    • including opened non-html-based documents
  • Making compatible tables
    • Markdown tables
    • Kables and tibbles

This Slidedeck Is Made With

ioslides



    1. There are only three types of slides in ioslides:
      • title slide (layout defined in YAML)
      • transitional slide (could use a selected color for the background)
      • regular slide (usually with a white background, but could choose a different color through CSS)

    2. Start a transition slide with ##
    3. Start a regular slide with ###
    4. Multi-column slide layout with < div ></ div>

R Markdown Presentation Formats

Four Formats

  • Interactive Presentations

    • ioslides (HTML),

    • slidy (HTML),

  • Static Presentations

    • beamer(PDF, MikTex is needed), and

  • Semi-interactive Presentation

    • Power Point (Our old friend!).

Interactive Web Presentations

Overlay Density Curves

Embedded Webpage

Embedded Interactive Apps

Interactive Dashboard

Searchable Data Table

Beamer and Beamer Themes

Beamer Built-in Themes

A Sample Beamer Presentation

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Our Old Friend - PPT!

PowerPoint from MS Suite

PowerPoint from RMarkdown

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RMD Source for PPT

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A Flexible and Beautiful Presentation: Ninja

What Is Presentation Ninja?